zhì
(dhole), beast
Pictograph of a dhole, a type of animal native to Asia.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤreʔ | dreaX | zhì | to crouch (before catching prey) |
*[d]reʔ | drjeX | zhì | bug, wug |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+8C78 |
Shuowen | “豸,獸長脊,行豸豸然,欲有所司殺形。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.737-738
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